Ending Of BEL260 class...

Many things I had learned from this class this semester as compared to last semester. This all from Miss Zuraidah binti Sumery that I always called 'Miss Zue'. She wants all her student to be good in english. She teached us very well. I more open and close on grammar this semester. In this class, Miss Zue love to made her teaching lesson fully with activities such as acting, singing, wrote & recite poem, forum and very useful to us is presentation on grammar part. Maybe, next semester all of this kinds activities will not be appear anymore. I think next sem when we have others lecture maybe the teaching lesson will be change too. 

Taadaa!!! my classmate with my lovely lecture....:)

have fun along this semester with them.

OMG!!.what will happen next....I love BEL 260 class, can I stay in this class?? BUT I don't want to repeat this paper!! hopefully NOT! I cross my finger...tightly.... :)

see!! my weird lecture, but she is the best among the best!!

Miss Zue love to change her teaching lesson because she want to attract her students' attention and she don't  want her students to be sleepy in her class... I APPRECIATE Miss Zue's kindness because understanding all of  us.

I LOVE entered BEL260 class because of the lecture that always energetic although she was tired. I never skipped this class...heeeee:) Ms Zue always made a joke and in class, sometimes she likes teasing her students, but it was funny.....when she teached, she loves to repeat the same words, it is really good, it made me more remembered and concious, for example definition and vocabulary such as WEIRD=BIZARRE. Her teaching lesson also EXCELLENT+SUPERB...keep it continues, keep it on the activities, it was fun while learning..:) It is hard to find lecture same to Miss Zue, I will miss Miss Zue....huhuhuu... Thanks to Miss Zu for all your hardwork and sorry for everything.. I will miss moment with you..GUDLUCK TO MISS ZUE. pray for our examination..

Purpose & Author's Tone

Author's Purpose

Authors have several purpose in mind when writing something. They wrote an essay sometimes to :

• Inform
• Entertain
• Persuade

All of this things can make us know their real purpose on their writing. Maybe they want to inform something to the reader,to give entertainment or to persuade the reader. There are a lot of kind of writing with their own purpose..

If the passage contains 

• facts or true information = to inform or teach
• fiction = to entertain
• tries to get you to do something = to persuade or convince 

Here have some information: 

http://www.woodland.k12.mo.us/faculty/rgarner/Reading/Authors%20puropse.htm

Author's Tone

For author's tone, there have 2 basics tone with are :

1. Positive 
2. Negative

We can see the tone after we understand the text either it is positive tone or negative tone. We can tell if the writer is showing  a positive attitude or a negative attitude through his word choice.

• sarcastic
• optimistic
• pessimistic
• indifferent
• cynical
• bitter
• encouraging
• mocking
• praising

In this class, we had made some exercise about this topic. At the end, we can differentiate it.

Click here : http://www.laflemm.com/RfT/Practice/RfTPracticeTone.html

Presentation Passive Voice & Pop Quiz

Last part of grammar we learned today...It was 'passive voice' that were presented by Nabila, Nina, Megat and I. My group and I were prepared the slide then we presented it to the whole class. Miss Zue helped us to explained to my classmates about this topic.
Passive Voice :  the subject of the sentences receives the action.
In passive voice, the object becomes the subject. For example :
Active voice : Din ate fried noodle. ( Din = subject, fried noodle = object )
Passive voice : Fried noodle was eaten by Din. ( Din = object , fried noodle=subject )
We can see the changes of the object and the subject from this sentences.
You can learn many things about passive voice through this :
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive


After the presentation, we had a POP QUIZ, but this time in a groups' work. I always nervous when there have whatever quiz, test or examination.. I feel like butterfly in my stomach, so I cross my finger, that time. Nervous!!Nervous!!Nervous!!.....Ohhh..hard to be calm..
This pop quiz was about argumentative essay, that we already learned before this. Writing again....Common Sue!! improve your writing skills!!! All of us were divided into group.This is the good news for us BUT( big but here) each person needs to write one paragraph and each person was given 15minutes per paragraph...huhuhuhu... the time will always limits..Megat, Eyla, Amalina and I were in one group. This essay was about parental negligence. 
Megat wrote the introduction, Malin wrote the 1st main idea, I the 2nd main idea and  the 3rd main idea was wrote by Elya. Then, for the conclusion, we discuss a little bit.. We settle down this essay on time!! great job for that day........

	Subject	Verb	Object

Argumentative Essay

Miss Zue said, to wrote argumentative essay we need to have a STANDS, so can came out with a few of main idea,so it can support our stands about that isssue.....In  arguementative essay it contains a introduction paragraph, body paragraphs, refutation paragraph and concluding paragraph.

She teached us how to wrote proper argumentative essay... Start from inroduction until the conclusion. Then she gave us one title about “why women nowadays are bolder and more aggressive than men”, so we need to write about that issue.....on Friday we need to pass up that essay...

I'd just discovered this web and I find it really helpful. I hope you think so too.
http://www.writeawriting.com/essay/argumentative-essay-outline-template/ 

Drawing Conclusion

“Drawing conclusions is a form of critical thinking. It is relates what you see, hear and read to what you already know”. Every essay need a conclusion to ending the essay. It will show a complete essay. We need to draw a conclusion using all the facts that we can find in the passage to help us to figure out what we do not know.

Here are some expressions that point to a conclusion :

Ø  We can deduce that

Ø  Therefore

Ø  As a result

Ø  Prove that

Ø  Points to the fact that

Ø  It is believed that


Get some Information here :
http://www.sanchezclass.com/drawing-conclusion.htm

Making Inferences

Today class we learned about making inferences. Miss Zue played some video, before the movie ends, we need to infer about that movie, at the same time we need to list down the end about the movie or what will ahppen next after we making inferences...Lastly we need to compare the movie ending with our result...

TITLT/EVENT	WHAT WE THINK WILL    HAPPEN	CLUES FROM THE VIDEO CLIPS	WHAT REALLY HAPPEN
Grenade	The man will be broken heart.	The woman is unfaithful.	He will kill himself
A walk to remember.	He will get angry to those who humiliate his girlfriend and defend her.	The man hugged the woman to calm his girlfriend.	The guy will punch the bad guy to protect the girl’s dignity.

Presentation Simple Past Tense & Past Continous Tense

Last presentation about grammar part. It is made by Jihan’s group ang Ifah’s group. This grammar part we need to learn very carefull. It is hard to explain if we are not understand deeply about this part.

When to used simple past tense :

1.      To talk about actions that happen at a specific time in the past.
You state when it happened using a time adverb.
2.      It can be used to described events that happened over a period of the time in the past but not now.
3.      It is also used to talk about habitual or repeated actions that took place in the past.

Spelling rules for simple past tense of regular verbs :

If the verbs ends in a consonant, +ed

E.g: return- returned

        help- helped

        cook- cooked

If the verbs ends in e, +d

E.g: live- lived

       create- created

If the verb ends in a consonant –vowel-consonant combination ( CVC ), double the last consonant  and +ed

E.g: hop- hopped

        rub- rubbed

Exception : word ending in _w, x, or _y (bow-bowed, play-played, mix-mixed)
If the verb ends in a consonant +y, change the _y to _i and _ed

E.g: worry- worried

        copy- copied

If the verb ends in a vowel +y, add _ed

E.g: play- played

        annoy- annoyed

Exception : pay- paid, lay-laid, say- said

Very important notes. From Nolek's group.
What is past continuous tense? 
The past continuous tense is used to show an action that lasted for some time in the past. The actions can be interrupted by something or can be happening at the same time.


After everything is done, both group combine the game which is play a musical chair. Each  group has 6 people. They use “move like jagger” song. Final game, they open a question and any group can answer it. The reward for open question will get cool blog.BUT my group did not get the cool blog..

Presentation Simple Present Tense & Present Continous Tense

Today was my group presentation with Elya and Amalina. We were present about Simple Present Tense. 

The simple present tense is used to describe situations, activities or actions which happen in the present time.

Can be facts or universal truths.Can also be situations, activities or actions which are repeated, unchanging and habitual in nature.

Please click this link for more information:

http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verb-tenses_present.htm 

http://www.studyenglishtoday.net/present-simple-tense.html 

 Megat’s group were present about Present Continous Tense. We present on the same day because this title had related each other.

This link can help you :)
http://www.slideshare.net/rosarioa.slide/the-present-continuous-tense
http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/tenseprescont.htm
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentcontinuous.html
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarstructures/a/prescont.htm

How to Write Inroduction for Paragraph

How to write introduction for an essay??? Every essay will have introduction paragraph. In this paragraph, it will gave some explanation abot the title. The Hook are designed to grab attention immediately and give some indication aboout the essay’s topic.Therefore, there have a few types of Hooks that we can use to start the paragraph.

·         Personal examples

·         Quotations

·         Facts or Statistics

·         Rhetorical Questions

·         Current events

·         Contrast to the Thesis Statement

·         Defination

Then we can put ‘The Transition’. It can moves the reader from the hook to the driving force of the essay.

Lastly , the intro can be ends with the thesis. It makes the contract with the reader about what will be discussed without a transparent announcement.

Elya, Amalina and I did the contrast the thesis statement hook. We choose topic about gays.

Listening Test

Listening Test!!OMG....I know about this news on this morning!!I was shocked for a minute...Why i do not know about this matter...I did not prepared anything for this exam..

Hopefully I can do the best...........Chaiyokk!!!

Speaking Test 2nd day

Speaking test for grouped 5,6 and 7..My round was past yesterday...Hooraiiiyyy.......:) Enough For speaking test yesterday....

Speaking Test

Speaking test today....can I do it?? Butterfly in my stomach,ohhh God....How should I face this day?? Tounge twister suddenly in my mind....

I was nervous and shaking while waiting another group to settle down their speaking test. Elya, Ezwan and I was on the same group. My group’s topic was about ‘How graduates can improve their job interviews’. in this discussion, I cannot speak well, but in my heart there were a lot of idea...the ideas cannot come out from my mouth...I do not know why!!

But, we still finished the discussion....I will improve my skill on speaking..

Listening Trial & Presentation Adverb & Subject Agreement

Today have a little bit exercise on listening practise on the class... We heard the video and do some exercise. This can make us to be more common with the style of listening test.



ADVERBS
First of all, let me tell you what is adverbs?


Adverbs are words that modify:
a VERB
an ADJECTIVES
ANOTHER ADVERBS



More information about this? You can click this link:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm


Subject Agreement

In SVA, the subjects an verbs must agree with one another in number  (singular/plural)
Thus, if the subject is singular, its verb must also be singular ; if a subject is plural, its verb must also be plural.





You can click this link to know more about this: 
http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/grammar/subverag.html
http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/SubjectVerb.html

Speaking Exercise

Speaking practise for today. Miss Zue gave explanation about the rules. She teached one by one steps to made the speaking test in good conditions. In the speaking test, there have two section, which is part A and part B.

Then she showed one example of the speaking test will go on. She pick 4 students for example. While them spoke, we loooked at them and try to understand how it being flow... in Part a, we only need to come out with our own point and elaboration. But in the part B, we need to make a discussion with group members. Give our point of view and opinion.

Lastly, each person need to make short conclusion about the discussion, which points is the best...

Listening exercise

First exposure to listening practise. We use textbook, the materials was hard, i could not understand the meaning of some words...How can I answer this kinds of questions??daaa....Blurr u know.....

I try my best to understand the recording, sometimes it was not to clear, so i could not catch up what they said.....

I will give more attention to heard the records.

Mid Term Test

Today, we had a mid term examination. As usuall I will feel nervous although I already studied before this. The class was cold that day, my finger cannot wrote very fast, while my leg was shaking....I was spend a lot of time on the essay section, but i still have enough time to settle down the reading part. Contextual clues was made head became dizzy....Many similar word I think, but it still not close and not suitable for that words...I very weak to find the synonyms word. I need to improve ny vocabulary and  the level of reading.

Consultation on Linear Essay

This is the first time we had a consultation time with Miss Zue, before this we only learned in the class with whole students. The consultation is the best way that can help students to ask questions.

Since we are going to have mid term test tomorrow, Miss Zue gave a chance to us to ask questions that we are not understand or whatever questions that we are not to sure how to answer it.

Then she give explanation about how she gives the marks and how to improve the writing. She will give the mark depends on the patterns we write.

Quiz and Presentation Adjectives & Conjunction

Noon class : We had another replacement class today. We are going to take one quiz. We just tried our best to answer all questions, either it is hard or easy....The format of the quiz was exactly same like the mid term test. After the quiz, we helped Miss Zue to mark the reading comprehension part. At the same time, we learned about reference words and contextual clues.

Night class : Another grammar presentation was presented. They presented about adjective and conjunction. 
As usual, every week we have one group presentation. Today's group is Izuan's group. They are presenting about CONJUNCTIONS and ADJECTIVES.
Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.

There are a few types of adjectives: 

Possessive adjectives

Demonstrative adjectives

Interrogative adjectives

Indefinite adjectives

http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/adjectve.html


Conjunction is conjunction is a word that connects other words or groups of words.

Use 'FANBOYS' to remember conjuction..

Want to know more about conjunctions? Just click this link. :)

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos8.htm

Forum

Woo...Oooooo.........Forum????What topic?????

We need to talked today about some issues. Do you want to know? Lets guess....emmmmm...nothing!!

I was group with Nolek, Jihan, Pony and Aira. My group get a topic about:
Youth today are generally not very patriotic to the country. There are excellent panel which is can give the reasons for the solution and suggest ways to increase youth's awareness of patriotism and instill the love for one's country as well as how they can show their patriotism to their country.
Pony became the host for this forum. n the opening, Pony use a trademark 'Where is pony?' like in the AC? :)

Many thing we discuss and we came out with certain opinion about that issues.

Pop Quiz & Facts and Opinion

First of all, we learned about Facts and Opinion...We learned how to differentiate between facts and opinion.

• A fact is something that is true about a subject and can be tested or proven.

          Look for clues such as: " 56% of...., or "The patient experienced..."

• An opinion is what someone thinks about that subject.

          Look for clues such as: "I believe...", "It's obvious...", or "They should..."


Get some information and exercises from here :
http://mrsdell.org/gr2/factopinion.html
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/factopquiz.html


Before the class end, we were given one task of promoting one product to the whole class. Each grouped need to give some facts and some opinion about their product. My grouped was required to promote biscuit which is 'BISCUITS OREO'. We gave some opinion and some facts about the brand.

Oreo

my group

You Think You Can Act The Musical

We need to act again!!! Who wanna to be an oprah????  I'm not willing....hehehe

We had a theatre musical today. Each group had to pick a newspaper cutting, where the article's story will be the base for the group's musical. My group got an article about "Another home-alone". It was about 2 kids left alone at home by their mother while she went to work. We need to made the theatre full with songs and acting.....We tried our best, but we did not do well that day....huhuhuhu. We were struggling use the time to fulfill Miss Zue's requirements. Others groups came out with amazing performances.

BUT, I enjoy watching my member's group presented their jobs. Here have some video and picture :)

Din's group

Dinie's group

Syazwan's group

All of them are amazing with their performance.

In my opinion:

Best group : Group 3

Best Actor : Ezuan

Best Actress: Pony

Presentation Pronouns & Prepositions

Today we had a grammar class. Aira and her members was teached whole class about pronouns and preposition..Aira's members were Hanis, Leyha and Aini Nina. They said that, pronoun is a word that takes the place and to replace BUT do not name it... There have a few types of pronoun such as:

• Personal Pronouns

I, me, you, he, him, she...

• Demonstrative Pronouns

this, that, these, those

• Possessive Pronouns 

mine, yours, his...

• Interrogative Pronouns

who, what, which...

• Reflexive Pronouns 

myself, yourself, himself...

• Reciprocal Pronouns

each other, one another

• Indefinite Pronouns

another, much, nobody, few, such...

• Relative Pronouns

who, whom, which...


Here have some reference about pronouns
http://www.momswhothink.com/reading/list-of-pronouns.html

Presentation of the Linear Writing

There were 5 group that had present that night. There are a few kind of idea that each group present about their essay. 

After the presentation, there have some comment from Miss Zue. She emphasized something such as :

• The writing must have a title.
• Each key features need to add some assumptions but do not to much or extreme.
• The prediction must be in a logic state and hopefully the proposal can be accordance with the times and logics. Both of it must included in the essay.
• The word cannot more than 200 words.

Example of my group essay 

Hours spent on activities by different age groups in Someland
Activity                        Age	Teens	20s	30s	40s	50s	60s	70s +
Watching TV/videos	1,200	700	400	500	600	700	1,100
Socialising with        4 or less people	150	150	300	250	250	200	200
Socialising with        4 or more people	350	350	50	50	25	25	25
Doing individual exercise	150	100	200	200	50	75	150
Doing group exercise/spot	450	350	200	150	50	0	0
Watching movies in cinemas	100	75	50	25	25	50	75

Hours spent on activities by different age group in Someland

The table represents the hours spent on activities by different age group from teens to 70s and above in Someland. The hours spent on doing two out of all the activities shows a decreasing rate while the rest shows a fluctuating rate. (OV + CI)

The time spent on watching television slumped significantly at 30s, where it then rose at 40s+. Due to work commitments, no spare time is allocated for entertainments. (KF 1)

However, the time used on socialising with four or more people dropped by 93% with a constant rate along the age groups, as their responsibilities increases, lesser hours are spent on leisure. (KF 2)

Individual exercise shows the most inconsistent rate, from dropping by 50 at 20s to rising by 100 at 40s to falling by 150 at 50s, it then shot back up by 100 at 70s. Health issues based on old age might be the cause of the sudden boomed in hours. (KF 3)

The table indicates the reducing number of people doing group exercise from teens to 60s and above. The higher the age group the lesser the activities are carried out due to health restrictions. Government can alter this statistics by advertise the benefits of exercise through mass media. (Pi + Pii)